This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The eye opening moments for me were
Listening to $35 Porta Pro headphones and realizing you don’t need a lot of money for great sound
ABX testing and realizing I couldn’t tell the difference AT ALL and certainly couldn’t remember the last sound bite well enough to make a real comparison anyway.
The AutoEQ project is all I need for great sound.
Shit's mindblowing with some headphones I've tried that need a heavy EQ. Porta Pros are fairly balanced already so not as mindblowing, but still worth at least checking out the demos on the webpage.
AutoEQ is open source. It's just EQ settings from analyzing frequency responses of headphones.
Audiophiles get a lot of friction, but this kind of person exists in almost any hobby. People fascinated by equipment and ascetics who loose the plot about what their hobby is all about.
The way audiophiles tell sound quality is 99.99% subjectivity and 0.01% objectivity.
will be converting to bananas tonight, thanks op
I mean, electrically all of those things will just attenuate amplitude, not really effect signal oscillations, which is actually what sound is ...
All they're doing is effectively adding a small resistance to the signal which will just lower the volume in effect. Adding any amplifier will fix that
i personally find bananna audio the most appealing
The article isn't clear on one thing : was it an analog or digital signal ?
The results are entirely unsurprising if the signal was digital. Also, I'd like to see a similar test in an environment with more electrical interference, I think the unshielded materials would fare less well there.
Most high end audio equipment is mostly just rich idiot tax. Though low to mid is a huge jump in audio quality.
So wait, did they send analoge or digital signals through? Because digital means you could send it through anything and as long as it gets through its the same. The cable only matters when you ARENT using digital signals.
It was never about sound quality. Sound quality was the justification for spending money and showing off. Just like so much of consumerism.
I listen to QUAD 77-11L speakers from like a lifetime ago, and a cheap class-D thing from Aliexpress. It's fine.
HugeNerd is correct, 90+% of audio quality is in the mic and speakers. Transducers make electro acoustics real, everything else is support.
Get really great used speakers cheap and an adequate amp just good enough to drive them. Your shit will sound excellent for anyone.
If you can't hear the difference, don't pay the difference
Explains the Monster cable 'gold-plated banana.'
